Recipes and tips for simple, healthy frugal cooking and frugal living

What can I say about FrugalCooking.com?Â Â Besides the obvious, it’s about how I cook.Â I actually started this blog to store my recipes.Â Since I make recipes up as I go along and never write them down, I rarely can recreate anything perfectly (much to my wife’s dismay.)

I’m just a self-taught home cook who loves all kinds of food.Â There are two types of home cooks- those that follow recipes and those that don’t.Â I’m the latter.Â I read many, MANY recipes but almost never follow them.Â Recipes inspire me, give me ingredient combinations and preparation ideas and get me headed in a direction.Â I then take the reigns and create something completely unique that’s perfectly suited to my taste.Â If you compare cooking to playing piano, following a recipe is like playing someone else’s music.Â I’d much rather read their music, listen to them play, and then use the inspiration to write and play my own composition.

While I try to include enough information for you to recreate my recipes, I’m not really expecting you to do that.Â I try to describe my inspiration, tell you why I thought certain combinations work and, hopefully, inspire you to borow from my ideas and make something uniquely your own.Â You know what your family likes to eat- turn my recipe into the perfect meal for your family!!!

You will notice there are a few things all my recipes have in common.Â These are based on some of my personal views, namely:

Some foods are really bad for you and make you fat, like refined sugar and white flour.Â I avoid these whenever I can.

Cucumber tastes like watermelon rind.Â If you don’t eat watermelon rind, why would you eat cucumbers.Â Yuck!Â Ditto for pickles.